Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Charlotte fantasies, past and future

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UNC Charlotte design student presents plans imagining a transit-oriented neighborhood, North Park. Photo: Mary Newsom It w...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Do women pay a transportation ‘pink tax’?

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This is a quick note, following my previous post, “ Cities for woman: Transit and gendered spaces, ” which raised the question of whether c...
Monday, November 5, 2018

Cities for women? Transit and gendered spaces

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Bus route changes that force longer walks, especially at night, can be particularly discouraging to female transit passengers. Photo: Ch...
Saturday, September 15, 2018

Waiting for the creek to rise

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Now demolished, the Midtown Sundries building was in a floodplain and flooded regularly. Photo courtesy Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Wa...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Should affordable housing be treated as basic city infrastructure?

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Here's an interesting piece in The Washington Post today that should be provoking some discussion among people concerned with housing a...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Want to know why Charlotte traffic is bad? One reason: You can’t get there from here

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The lack of a connected street grid leads to congestion. So there I was, heading to an 8:30 a.m. meeting near UNC Charlotte. Zipping up...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

More parking? Less parking? The debate continues.

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Tobe Holmes of University City Partners describes changes coming to the UNC Charlotte part of the city when a light rail extension opens ...